Borneo is dotted with national parks and when you see the levels of deforestation this can only be a good thing. Similajou is a small coastal park but with crocodiles and violent seas it's not really the place to go for a quick dip. Apparently the park is home to over 43 mammals - But other than the monkeys which followed us from the the safety of the tree tops we glimpsed nothing more than a squirrel on our first day. As many animals are nocturnal Tom and I decided that going on a night walk would be the solution. We set out, jumping at every sound - knowing that there was a lot of life out there but completely unable to work out where it was. Was that noise animal, vegetable, mineral or just Tom's
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